Mobile devices (tablet, smartphone) as IoT device?

[linusdm]

Just a quick question: are mobile (android) devices considered IoT devices? Is it possible to integrate a "regular" (android) app with the Ockam SDK's?
Most of the time these devices are tied to some personal account, but in other (more corporate) situations these devices can also be used in a shared environment where it acts more like an IoT devices. In these cases an enrollment process is more suitable than an authentication scheme tied to a personal identity. That's why I was wondering whether this would be a use-case for Ockam.
Would be great if someone could elaborate on this, or reference an example.
Keep up the good work!

[mrinalwadhwa]

Hi @linusdm, thank you that's a great question.

There are several scenarios where an Android App acting like an Ockam Node would be useful:

1. App Enrollment as you described above.
2. End-to-end encrypted communication between an IoT device and a phone app.
3. Privacy preserving credentials for android apps
   etc.

linusdm: Is it possible to integrate a "regular" (android) app with the Ockam SDK's

This is technically possible today using the Android NDK and Ockam's rust libraries.

But eventually we plan to make this much easier by having idiomatic Android libraries in Java / Kotlin.

If you have a specific use case in mind, I would love to learn more about it, my email is mrinal@ockam.io